From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 17 13:37:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C80106566B for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:37:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cowens@greatbaysoftware.com) Received: from portcityhosting.com (bayringfw.portcityweb.com [64.140.243.92]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0464A8FC12 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:37:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([173.14.128.81]) by portcityhosting.com with MailEnable ESMTP; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:37:19 -0500 Message-ID: <4B7BF21F.2080501@greatbaysoftware.com> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:41:51 -0500 From: Charles Owens MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pluknet References: <4B75AB2D.2090306@greatbaysoftware.com> <4B79C9CB.8060102@greatbaysoftware.com> In-Reply-To: X-WatchGuard-AntiVirus: part scanned. clean action=allow X-ME-Bayesian: 0.000000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mptutil(8) segfault on IBM xSeries 3550 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:37:22 -0000 pluknet wrote: > On 16 February 2010 01:25, Charles Owens wrote: > >> Charles Owens wrote: >> >>> Howdy, >>> >>> We're working with IBM hardware (xSeries 3550) that has an >>> mpt-based RAID controller... after initial success with testing the >>> mptutil utility, now operations other than "show adapter" and "show >>> volume" are resulting in segfaults. >>> >>> While it was working properly we created and removed volumes several >>> times, force-failed drives, and just generally put it through its >>> paces... and all seemed fine. Then, after a reboot, it suddenly started >>> failing with segfault as described, and nothing we do has helped to get >>> it out of this state (including trying to use the LSI in-BIOS manager to >>> create/delete volumes -- which in and of itself works fine). >>> >>> We found recent thread >>> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4B56CD4C.80503 and hoped that it >>> might somehow relate... and even tried the patch that John Baldwin >>> posted, but to no avail. >>> >>> Has anyone seen this behavior and/or have a suggested fix or workaround? >>> >>> >>> Here's the output of "mptutil show adapter": >>> >>> mpt0 Adapter: >>> Board Name: SR-BR10i >>> Board Assembly: L3-25116-01H >>> Chip Name: C1068E >>> Chip Revision: UNUSED >>> RAID Levels: RAID0, RAID1, RAID1E >>> RAID0 Stripes: 64K >>> RAID1E Stripes: 64K >>> RAID0 Drives/Vol: 1-10 >>> RAID1 Drives/Vol: 2 >>> RAID1E Drives/Vol: 3-10 >>> >>> >>> This work is being done using FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 + PAE. >>> >>> >> I should add that the RAID controller in question is the IBM >> ServeRAID-BR10i SAS/SATA Controller which is based on the LSI 1068E >> processor, as described here: >> http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/4/872/ENUSAG09-0104/index.html >> >> >> > > Hi, would you show ktrace output? > I'm going to do this today. Should I run ktrace with any particular arguments (ie. the "-t" option) ? Thanks, Charles